Cathy Smart, Cfa Email & Phone Number

Bend, Oregon

Independent consultant providing financial writing, manager research, and marketing services to clients. Client activities have included:-Completed financial writing projects for investment managers and advisors including monthly and quarterly commentaries, annual reports, white papers, marketing brochures, Q&A literature, and educational articles for a client’s website. -Edited client’s quarterly fixed income outlook.-Revised client’s pitch book for its $3 billion equity strategy. -Provided manager search and selection services for a family office with a $1 billion portfolio. Wrote quarterly commentaries and conducted ongoing due diligence on those managers.-Developed and documented processes and procedures for conducting manager searches and ongoing manager due diligence.-Conducted manager research and due diligence for a registered investment advisor with $4 billion in assets under management.-Provided sales and marketing services for a municipal bond portfolio manager with $1 billion in assets under management.

San Francisco, Ca

-Member of Wetherby’s research team responsible for identifying, analyzing, and conducting due diligence on outside investment products utilized in client portfolios. -Conducted asset allocation research and provided strategic and tactical portfolio recommendations to Wetherby’s Investment Committee based on that research.-Wrote Wetherby’s quarterly newsletter and other client communications.

San Francisco, Ca

-Selected subadvisors and appropriate investments for Managers Investment Group’s mutual fund, institutional, and private clients totaling over $8 billion in assets. -Asset allocation team member responsible for making strategic and tactical asset allocation recommendations for certain mutual funds and client portfolios.-Wrote and edited quarterly commentaries for subadvised mutual funds.

San Francisco

-Managed a team of nine analysts responsible for analyzing domestic equity, international equity, and fixed income mutual funds and separate accounts and for designing model portfolios for over 100 clients.-Served on mPower’s Investment Committee responsible for defining fund research methodology and for approving portfolio recommendations and fund analysis deliverables.-Published articles focused on small-cap and mid-cap equity funds and on the importance of diversification.

Beaverton, Or

Responsible for various aspects of Tektronix’s 401(k) and pension plans including participating in investment manager searches and monitoring and evaluating investment managers.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Finance And Marketing

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), International Business